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New Video: Adeline Doll Reveal!
In order to change her destiny and the barren, colorless world, ten-year-old Adeline will have to unleash the last bit of magic.
Adeline Picot, is the main protagonist from my Middle Grade Fantasy story, Adeline and the Mystic Berries.
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What I am Working On: More YouTube Videos!
This week I continued working on editing my book, Adeline and the Mystic Berries (see last week’s What I am Working On post for more on editing this story). I finished the in-line edits and have moved onto reorganizing and deleting chapters, and also writing new scenes as well. This part of the process will definitely be the most time consuming. It is also a lot of fun, to add more scenes in with my favorite characters (like, Aspen, seen above).
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A to Z Challenge Reflections
April is over and with it, the A to Z Challenge for bloggers. I posted one post every day, except for Sundays, and ended with 26 new blog posts.
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A to Z Challenge: V is for Video (Ink & Stitches YouTube Channel)
It’s time. If you are here for writing advice but enjoy the posts about amigurumi and just don’t know how to make one, or if you just want to learn crochet anyway, today is the day where class begins!
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A to Z Challenge: M is for Making Amigurumi Patterns
Once you get comfortable working up other crafter’s patterns, why not try making your own? You will begin to understand how increasing and decreasing stitches can change the shape of your piece while crocheting in the round. I made other crocheter’s patterns for about two to three years before feeling confident enough to make my own.
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A to Z Challenge: K is for Knitting vs Crocheting
If someone asked me which I prefer: crocheting or knitting, I would tell them without batting an eye, crochet, every time. Let me tell you why.
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A to Z Challenge: I is for Invisible Decrease (Crochet)
I had been crocheting for a couple of years before ever hearing of a stitch called: invisible decrease. Decreasing wasn’t a mystery to me. I had learned to decrease (combining two or more stitches into one) at the same time as I’d learned to increase (adding one or more stitches into the same working stitch).
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A to Z Challenge: G is for Gift Giving and GIVEAWAY!!!
As a crafter or artist of any kind, your talents will be sought after whenever anyone needs an artist of your skill set. I have been asked many-a-time at work to be involved in projects—or take them over—if they are of an artistic nature, but that is a post for another time.
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A to Z Challenge: C is for Crochet
Crocheting has changed so drastically from how it began, back as early as the 1700s (though it’s turned up more noticeably since the early 1800s). It started with uses more practical to the times: creating nets and traps for hunters and fisherman. Later on, it became used for more decorative purposes (See more on crochet history).
From there crochet evolved again. Homes were adorned with granny square blankets thrown over the backs of sofas, and doilies found themselves the centerpieces on tables or for giving style to a nice side table lamp. Homes were given a softer, more cozy feel, by the crocheted pieces that were placed carefully around them.
Artists nowadays are taking the hobby of crochet to new heights, creating 3-D sculptures that are considered art alongside clay busts and paintings hung up on the wall.
It never ceases to amaze me what artists can do with the fewest amount of resources and tools. Who knew that simply having some yarn, a crochet hook, and a yarn needle, could create something like the underwater scene above?
New levels of cuteness using crochet, were found when the art of making amigurumi was brought over from Japan (see my post on
A to Z Challenge: A is for Amigurumi
